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  • “I was very glad, since I thought He meant I was to die soon, and the mere thought of this delighted me.” “The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” by Herself. Perhaps we can blame my Catholic upbringing, perhaps we can blame the course I took in college that landed this book in my hand,…

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  • ” ‘Eileen,’ Mary Helen said bluntly, ‘every murderer is someone somebody knows.’” “A Novena for Murder: A Sister Mary Helen Mystery” by Sister Carol Anne O’Marie” In my train station here in the Chicago suburbs is one of the greatest things ever: the Book Cart. Passengers on the BNSF line can leave books, borrow books,…

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